I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWINI have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
CHARLES DARWINThe world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWINWe are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
CHARLES DARWINNothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
CHARLES DARWINGreat is the power of steady misrepresentation.
CHARLES DARWINThus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWINMan selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWINAt no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
CHARLES DARWINNothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
CHARLES DARWINBlushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWINMan is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
CHARLES DARWINWhat wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWINWe can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
CHARLES DARWINThe more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
CHARLES DARWINThe normal food of man is vegetable.
CHARLES DARWINThe very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWIN